Need Your first pr for hacktoberfest 2k22 ? come on in
Participate in Hacktoberfest by contributing to any Open Source project on GitHub! Here is a starter project for first-time contributors.
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Hacktoberfest is the easiest way to get into open source! Hacktoberfest is a month long festival of open source code presented by Digital Ocean and DEV this year in 2022.
During the entire month of October 2022, all you have to do is contribute to any open source projects and open at least 4 pull requests. Yes, any project and any kind of contributions. It can be a be a bug fix, improvement, or even a documentation change! And win a T-Shirt and awesome stickers.
If you’ve never contributed to open source before, this is the perfect time to get started because Hacktoberfest provides a large list of available contribution opportunities (and yes, there are always plenty for beginners too).
Hacktoberfest has a simple and plain moto.
Support open source and earn a limited edition T-shirt!
So, yes! You can win a T-Shirt and few awesome stickers to attach on your laptop. On plus side, you will get into beautiful world of open source and get the international exposure.
Wait there's more!
This is general Repo which is meant for learning the basics about open source contributions,If you want to contribute to techstack specific repo then please refer below links for begginer freindly repos for HacktoberFest 2022: Link
Don't know how to start of open source and Contribute to our Open Source Project ? Welcome to the world of hacking!
The steps to follow to contribute to any projects:
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If you don't have git on your machine, install it.
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Fork this repository by clicking on the fork button on the top of this page. This will create a copy of this repository in your account.
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Now clone the forked repository to your machine. Go to your GitHub account, open the forked repository, click on the code button and then click the copy to clipboard icon.
Open a terminal and run the following git command:
git clone "url you just copied" -
git remote add upstream <original repository> -
This will also avoid any merge conflicts while committing new changes
git pull upstream main -
Always create new branch
git checkout -b <feature-github username> -
Add your awesome Personel Project in Projects dicrectory according to the techstack that you have used.
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"name": {YOUR_NAME}, "batch": {YOUR_BATCH_COMMENCEMENT_YEAR}, "picture_url": {PICTURE_CDN_URL}, "personel_project": {YOUR_PERSONEL_PROECT's_LINK}, "github": {YOUR_GITHUB_PROFILE_LINK}, "linkedin": {YOUR_LINKEDIN_PROFILE_LINK}, "quote": {QUOTE_WHICH_DEFINES_YOU} -
To get your PICTURE_CDN_URL head over to https://imgbb.com/ and upload one of your nice looking image and get's it's url
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git add data.json
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git status
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Write commit message as "Small Message"
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git commit -m "Add {YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME} information"
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git push origin <branch-name> -
Just hit the create a pull request button, you must write a PR message to clarify why and what are you contributing
Your name should appear shortly in Contributor list down after the pull request is merged.